Smart Home Customization: Creating Personalized Routines with Alexa and Siri

• Jul 29, 2024
• By Arshpreet Gaba

Alexa and Siri have been a part of the Indian technology market for the last few years and have introduced smart home customization to many homes to make life easy and comfortable for family members. The daily tasks and tedious chores have become interesting with technology doing its rounds. Customizing a smart home and integrating smart devices and voice assistants by them giving commands is a great way to make a routine and simplify living. 

Alexa and Siri can control smart appliances and lighting by setting a routine through voice commands. It may be a pleasant surprise that there is almost a 200% increase in smart home devices integrated with voice assistants in India. Are you ready to start your Leccy & Genesis smart home journey with Alexa and Siri? Do you want to travel this road of customized home automation sequences with voice assistants?

Make your life easier:

By planning customized home automation sequences with the help of Leccy & Genesis smart gadgets, you can control several actions by giving a voice command to the connected voice assistant. Siri and Alexa respond instantly to the commands and execute the instructions. “Turn off the lights and turn on the AC,” Voila! Siri or Alexa will do it for you. They can also turn gadgets on and off at a stipulated time! Fix a morning routine with the Leccy & Genesis smart gadgets and make life easy!

Alexa and Siri permit users to set up a personalized routine to provide an intuitive and seamless smart home environment. It's super convenient to give customized commands to enhance security, make life more convenient, and save power and money through automated gadgets integrated smoothly into the home ecosystem. 

Being greeted by the early sun’s warm rays every morning and embracing the natural light is possible. All you have to do is give a voice command to Alexa or Siri and sip your coffee while you watch the smart curtains let the light in. Fix your personalized routine and then step in to enjoy the wonderful home automation experience every morning, day after day. 

What can we call a routine?

Automated actions in a sequential form for convenience, simplifying daily chores, increasing home security, and improving energy efficiency triggered by a schedule or command is a routine. Using specific conditions or voice commands, you can customize a complex routine with multiple smart gadgets. 

Various Leccy & Genesis smart devices can be integrated and given voice commands through Alexa and Siri. Siri integrates smart gadgets and iOS functionalities with a routine to relax the user.

Speak your command to Siri and get your chores done in a jiffy. Turning the lights on or closing the blinds are parts of the home routine you can have great fun with. Siri can even help you close the door as you leave your home. Routine customizations can make life easy by creating impressive schedules for conditional actions.

Voice-activated assistants such as Siri and Alexa help customize home automation by controlling several home appliances and smart devices. These devices are seamlessly integrated with the voice assistants through the WiFi.

• Siri and Alexa connect to smart devices through voice commands, offering the user control over lighting and opening and closing doors or curtains for privacy. Smart devices in the home can be integrated with Alexa and Siri because they support many home products that different manufacturers have created. Motion sensors, cameras, smart lights, door locks, etc.,  comprehensively respond to these voice assistants and help the user create a smart home ecosystem that is not restricted to any particular product.
  
  
• Personalization and customization come easy with Siri and Alexa. As you set the routines on your assistants through personalized commands, they suggest routines that might benefit your home chores. For example, if you open or close the smart curtains simultaneously for a few days, Alexa or Siri will remind you to do the same if you forget. They quickly grasp the particular pattern and then automate it for the convenience of the family members.

• Scheduling or automating a routine has always been challenging. Suppose you wish Alexa a good night before the living room lighting is shut down regularly for a few days. The voice assistants catch on to the pattern, taking it as a trigger, and use it to simplify the daily routine. Similar commands can be automatically used as a trigger for convenience, and the task can get done super quickly by the smart gadgets. Isn't it exciting and effortless? You can do this once and set it up as a schedule for future days. It's an assistant at your beck and call!

• Remote control over smart devices is now super easy. Turn off the smart devices and control their working from a long way off by scheduling their timings by synchronizing the voice assistants to your smartphone app. You can adjust settings anytime and automate your home.

• A voice recognition feature can help security reach an advanced level. Alexa and Siri can easily distinguish voices from different users and provide entry only to authorized users with personalized responses.  This works amazingly well with the smart door locks. Even if someone gives the same "Alexa, open the door” voice command, Alexa won't provide you with the entry until you are authorized to do so. It will undoubtedly keep the door smartly shut and works excellently for sensitive smart gadgets!

• Accessibility features make different devices more accessible for people with disabilities, age, or small kids, increasing their independence. 

Basic Setup for Alexa:

Go to the routine section.

Create the routine and press the “+” icon to start it.

Activate the routine with a voice command to Alexa or Siri. This acts as the trigger, prompting the device to start and act according to the routine set.

You can open the door, close it, turn the lights on/off, pull or open the smart curtains, etc, within seconds after giving a voice command to Siri or Alexa. Choose the actions you want! Name the routine and then save it.

Let’s make this clear with an example:

Alexa, open the curtains and turn on the fan, and with the following command, Alexa, lock the door and turn on the lights and AC. All will be done automatically. Well, it's that simple to set up a routine and enjoy that “lie-in” in bed while the voice assistants take over your humdrum chores. 

Similarly, a basic setup will trigger Siri.

A Siri routine:

Go to the Siri app on your device.

Tap “+” to create a home screen shortcut.

Choose actions and add them to create a routine.

Customize the shortcut and add it to Siri by recording a voice command. 

Alexa and Siri are potent tools that can automate your homes and provide a personalized user experience by integrating different Leccy & Genesis smart devices and customizing the commands through intuitive voice control. You can start with the basics and then add complexity to customize adjustments. Endless possibilities are waiting for us to improve our standard of living and make life easier and more convenient.